diff --git a/app/code/Magento/Cron/README.md b/app/code/Magento/Cron/README.md
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+++ b/app/code/Magento/Cron/README.md
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-Cron is a module that enables scheduling of jobs. Other modules can add cron jobs by including crontab.xml in their etc directory. The script dev/shell/cron.sh should be run periodically to trigger the Cron module to run its scheduled jobs.
+Cron is a module that enables scheduling of jobs. Other modules can add cron jobs by including crontab.xml in their etc directory. The command "bin/magento cron:run" should be run periodically to trigger the Cron module to run its scheduled jobs.
 This module also allows administrators to tune cron options in Magento Admin.
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diff --git a/dev/shell/cron.sh b/dev/shell/cron.sh
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--- a/dev/shell/cron.sh
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@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-# Copyright © 2015 Magento. All rights reserved.
-# See COPYING.txt for license details.
-# location of the php binary
-if [ ! "$1" = "" ] ; then
-CRONSCRIPT=$1
-else
-CRONSCRIPT=pub/cron.php
-fi
-
-PHP_BIN=`which php`
-
-# absolute path to magento installation
-INSTALLDIR=`echo $0 | sed 's/cron\.sh//g'`"../../"
-
-# prepend the intallation path if not given an absolute path
-if [ "$INSTALLDIR" != "" -a "`expr index $CRONSCRIPT /`" != "1" ];then
-    if ! ps auxwww | grep "$INSTALLDIR""$CRONSCRIPT" | grep -v grep 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null ; then
-    $PHP_BIN "$INSTALLDIR""$CRONSCRIPT" &
-    fi
-else
-    if  ! ps auxwww | grep " $CRONSCRIPT" | grep -v grep | grep -v cron.sh 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null ; then
-        $PHP_BIN $CRONSCRIPT &
-    fi
-fi